SBC Hires FCC Official

Updated Oct. 16, 2002 12:06 a.m. ET

A top official overseeing a review of federal telephone regulations has taken a job with the nation's second-largest local telephone company, SBC Communications Inc. Dorothy Attwood, former chief of the Wireline Competition and Enforcement Bureaus at the Federal Communications Commission, starts her new job on Nov. 1. While she stepped down as bureau chief in August, Tuesday was her last day at the FCC. SBC is pushing for the repeal of FCC rules that require the Baby Bells to lease their networks to competitors at low wholesale prices. Ms. Attwood faces a two-year cooling-off period that will prevent her from making...